One of the popular chip formats in the 70's and 80's were the ubiquitous EPROMs (Electrically Programmable Read Only Memories). They had very good memory density at the time and were accessible technology for hackers and OEMs alike. They had the advantage...
After I convinced myself that the emulator was probably OK, I turned back to the ROM. But after I found yet another ROM image online, and it turned out to be identical to the other three, I have to rule out bad ROM as well. Just as well as I was...
So after several days trying diffrenet approaches for communication beetween server and ESP8266 we finally got the last bit working on the project (have some back logging to do here at hackaday.io), MQTT over a ESP8266 to a Teensy 3.1. The resulting...
Having found the send speed setting, I got a bit interested in the file sending process itself. Tracing back a reference to "Sending....Press any key to stop. " text, I find sub_F013:F013 ; XXX prepare to send (flags and prompt) F013 sub_F013:...
The biggest challenge right now is I/O into the system. I'd eventually like to support KeyboardLCDSerial / UART for attaching modems and other such thingsCompact flash driveA Counter/Timer Circuit (CTC) Last night, I realised I could use a handful of...
I decided that interface between ZIF-socket and host machine will be implemented with help of this antique ISA backplane manufactured in 1984 (I bought it for about $20 last month):I cut out it a little to remove part with pull-up resistors, because...
This represents a complete OPCODE list with 14 Constants (int values) available and 10 Labels (byte values) available for creating subroutines. Constants were favored over Labels, but this is up for evaluation. NOP and HCF were both added to the official...
I might be missing a few connections yet which I'll correct as I come across them, but here is the pinout of the XC3S250E FPGA on the control board. Note that the SRAM and the Flash share an interface bus. Also note that the JTAG interface...
Video or it didn't happen! Interactive and animated chart for the Leaderboard Awards. The data used in this chart was collected by Yann Guidon / YGDES over a period of more than 40 days.Play with the data for yourself. Yes, the webpage is lousy for the...